The Hobbit

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Abstract

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.

Kirkus

Dwarfs and goblins and a new small creature named a "hobbit" in a book that has a place of its own. Unlike Alice or The Adventures of a Brownie or The Phoenix and the Carpet (all fairly obvious comparisons), TheHobbit deals solely with these little creatures, and their adventures with enemies of fact and fiction, and not at all with humans. Frankly, I think it a book to be shared with children, rather than read by them. And the children must be imaginative children with a certain sort of child philosophy and a sense of humor. It's a book to be taken in small bits, for though it is in the main an adventure in treasure hunting, it is episodic in character -- and is not wholly easy reading at a gulp. It's a book to be sold carefully, to the right parents -- and with a good start, it might become a perennial. (Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 1938)